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File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". | File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". | ||
||1902: Howard Walter Gilmore born - submarine commander in the United States Navy who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his self-sacrifice during World War II. Pic. | |||
||1913: Rudolf Diesel dies ... engineer, invented the diesel engine. Pic. | ||1913: Rudolf Diesel dies ... engineer, invented the diesel engine. Pic. | ||
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1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1957: Industrialist and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung authorizes the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Investor and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde tell resporters that he "had nothing to do with the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)."
2015: Two Creatures 3 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.